DEAN GRAZIOSI: DEAN GRAZIOSI REAL ESTATE

Selling your home can be one of the most stressful events you ever experience, but if you are ready to list your home there are some things that you can do to help make it memorable in the minds of potential buyers.  One of the best things you can do is provide buyers with a mental picture of how the home looks with furniture and art in place.  If you are not comfortable with your own items or feel that they are not the right quality to influence potential buyers, you may want to enlist the help of a professional staging company.  Professional home stagers know how to incorporate artwork into your existing home to provide a pleasant and warm feeling throughout your home.

If you choose to use your existing pieces and stage your home on your own, there are some things that you can do to make your art work for you.  One of the first things you can do is to hang those large art pieces that you may not have been 100% sure about.  Using large pieces on the walls helps to make the room seem fuller.  Large canvas pieces can be used to help make a large wall not look so empty.  Colorful canvas pieces are also a great way to make your rooms feel more cozy and inviting.  Buyers would rather see a large canvas print on large living room wall than an empty wall.  It provides them with some ideas as to how they can decorate if they purchase your home.

Another way that you can incorporate artwork into your home is by hanging several smaller photos or prints together to form a type of collage.  When properly hung the combined smaller pieces will appear to be one piece instead of multiple pieces.  This technique is great to use behind a sofa or above a console and bed.  You can create a visually appealing collage using either canvas pieces or framed art.  You may even want to try adding mirrors or stained glass items to bring some color into the collage. 

When hanging art on your walls you should hang it so that the middle of the piece or collection of pieces is at eye level or approximately five feet off of the floor.  If your walls feature any type of decorative wainscoting or paneling you may have to hang the artwork a little higher.  But remember to keep it at a level where the person viewing it is not straining to see it.  If you are going to be hanging a piece of art behind a couch or chair you want to hang it a level where the person sitting down will not be constantly bumping their heads on the art.

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When you are trying to sell a home, it is important to make it as appealing as possible. Many people do not realize that their home holds no sales appeal, and that is why it takes them longer to sell their home. In today’s buyer’s market, you have to make your home as inviting as possible if you want it to sell quickly. Luckily, there are some very easy things you can do to make any home have sales appeal.

Start with the front yard. This is the first thing that buyers will see when they pull up to the home, and it needs to be pristine and inviting. If your yard is sparse with grass, or has a broken down tree, it is likely to be passed right by. It can be well worth the money to have a bit of landscaping done before you put your home on the market.

Likewise, the front of the house needs to look great and be in good repair. If you have cracking paint, you should definitely repaint the house before you put it on the market. If siding is in disrepair, have it fixed before putting the house up for sale. These small improvements will make a huge difference in how quickly you sell your house, and what you can get out of it.

What buyers see when they enter the home is also going to impact how appealing it is to them. If you have a lot of furniture and belongings scattered about, it is less likely that anyone will want to buy it. This is because they need to be able to see it as they would have it, and this is difficult to do with your every day clutter lying around. To that end, there are a lot of things you can do to improve the sales appeal of your home without spending a dime.

First, take down all of your family portraits and pack them away. It is okay to leave a few pieces of wall art around the home if they make features of the home stand out or make it look better. But personal pictures should be taken down. In addition, you will want to make sure that all personal belongings are as out of sight as possible when you have an appointment to show the house.

You may also want to take some of your furniture and put it into storage, keeping only the pieces you need to get by. The emptier the house is when it is shown, the more likely it is that you will sell it. In addition, you should make sure that the house is completely clean every time you show it. You should dust and wipe down everything in your home before someone comes to see it. Doing these simple things will greatly increase the sales appeal of your home.

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Most people, who enter the real estate investing field, always approach the purchase of a home from a business angle, or at least try to. Actually according to real estate investing experts like Dean Graziosi, this is a good thing, but he also states that a property investment should be seen as more than just an investment.

If we want to make a profit and eventually sell that piece of real estate, we need to see it through the eyes of the buyer. One of the issues that investors struggle with when trying to sell a property for profit is the “Home Appeal.” By home appeal I mean making the home seem more comfortable and happy.

So, when you have bought a real estate investment, and want to furnish it or add greenery, or curb appeal you always want to think about making it more appealing for resale. Let’s talk about the interior furnishings for a moment.

When you buy or rent  furniture to stage your home for resale, you need to stage the furniture so it seems more appealing and will make potential buyers more interested in the property.  Here are a few tips that I have come across here and there on the Internet and on twitter. I guess I have added a few suggestions from my woman’s point of view.

Buy Smaller Furniture

It is easier to stage sofas and chairs than sectional furniture. You want everything to look like a conversation can easily and comfortably take place here.

Don’t Purchase Flower or Plaid Prints

Try to keep your furniture in solid colors and neutrals are better. This way everyone will like the home furnishings. It will always be in style and everyone will find it pleasing.

Don’t Get the Set

Every woman knows that a home has a more elegant feel, and has a designer look when the furniture is not a set, but each piece is carefully chosen to go with the next.

Make Sure you Leave Room to Walk

People who are looking at homes need room to walk around and to see every room, so make sure you stage the rooms for walking through.

As you can see there is more to selling a home profitably than just putting it on the market. You need to pay attention to detail and to aesthetics, and these are the things that Pro real estate investors like Dean Graziosi show us.

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